Display rack for phonograph disks



C. A. BOWER.

DISPLAY RACK FO'R PHONOGRAPH DISKS.

APPLICATION FILED DEC-I6. I921.

1,421,399 1 Patented July 4, 1922.

CHESTER'ALMONDE BOWER, OF CASTOR, CANADA.

DISPLAY RACK FOR PHONOGRAPH DISKS.

Specification of Letters Zatent.

Patented July 1, 1922.

Application filed December 16, 1921. Serial No. 522,837.

T 0 all whom it may concern Be it known that l, Cnnsrnn ALMONDE Bownn, asubject of the King of Great Britain, and resident of Castor, in theProvince of Alberta, Dominion of Canada, have in vented certain new anduseful Improvements in Display Racks for honograph Disks, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in display racks for phonographdisks or records, and has for its objects to provide a means fordisplaying the phonograph disks for sale in a store.

Further objects are to provide an improved display rack, which comprisesa plurality of vertical rods positioned insemicircular arrangement, andhaving a plurality of racks proper pivotally mounted on the rods.

Further objects are to provide a rack, which consists of a tubularmember pivotally mounted on a rod and having upwardly inclined groovedarms designed to loosely engage the phonograph disk or record.

Further objects are to provide an improved display rack that is simplein construction, not liable to go out of repair, and generally to adaptthe several parts to better perform the functions required of them.

lVith the above and other objects in view, the invention consistsessentially of the improved construction, hereinafter described indetail in the accompanying specification and drawings.

in the drawings;

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improved display rack.

Figure 2 is a. plan view of the same.

Figure 3 is a longitudinal section through one of the improvedphonograph disk supporting members.

Like characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all thefigures.

Referring to the drawings, A represents the improved display rack, whichcomprises a plurality of vertical rods 10 mounted in two semi-circularplates 11 and 12, which serve to dispose the rods 10 in semi-circulararrangement.

Mounted on the rods 10 are a plurality of racks or frames 13, eachcomprising a tubular member lat housing a part of the vertical rod 10and forming integral or otherwise two arms 15 and 16.

The arms 15 and 16 are slanted upwardly,

and are grooved or in order to provide engage the edges of frame 13.

The edges of the wall 17 or of the grooved sides of the arms 15 and 16are flared outwardly so that the side of the phonograph disk or recordmay be more easily engaged by the walls of the two arms 15 and 16.

As a plurality of frames 13 may be placed on the same rod 10, spacingmeans are provided, which consist of a washer 19 which may be made of adesired thickness. The top semi-circular plate 11 may if desired beformed integral, or otherwise provided, with a tongue 20 slotted as at21 in order to engage a suitable supporting means on a wall, so that thedisplay rack A as a whole may be hung on the wall or other suitableplace.

When this improved display rack is being used for display purposes forphonograph records, the records are placed in the frames 13, and theclient ords placed in one row, that is, the records carried by theframes 13 hinged on the same vertical rod 10, turns them over to theright or left, as the case may be, exactly as a page of a book.

As many changes could be made in the above construction, and manyapparently widely different embodiments of my invention, within thescope of the claim, constructed without departing or scope thereof, itis intended that all matter contained in the accompanying specificationand drawings, shall be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limitingsense.

JV hat I claim as my invention is:

A display rack for phonograph disks or records, comprising a pluralityof rods, vertically disposed in semi-circular arrangement, a pluralityof racks pivotally mounted on the rods, and each comprising a sleevemounted on the rods, grooved arms carried by each sleeve, and slantingupwardly, the outer ends of the grooved arms being diverged outwardly,and spacing means between the sleeves.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of twowitnesses.

CHESTER ALMONDE BOWVER.

l/Vitnesses:

OLIVER C. SMITH, MARTIN J oHN BRENNAN.

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